Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Jones, Penny  June 2, 1895
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The Public Ledger, Tues., June 4, 1895


An old colored women, Penny Jones, said to be over 100 years old, died at the 
Old Folks’ Home, Bute Street last evening. The funeral will take place at 5 
p.m. today from the Bute Street A.M.E. Church.



Norfolk Virginian, Tues, June 4, 1895, pg. 2 

Pemmy Jones, colored, aged 112 years, died Sunday at the Old Folks’ Home, No. 
324 Bute Street. Her funeral took place yesterday from the Bute Street A.M.E. 
Church. She was an old servant of the Todd family for nearly a century. A 
representative of The Virginian called at the home of the old women some time 
ago and found that she was an interesting talker of events of seventy-five 
years ago. She well remembered Gen Washington. She was thought to have been the 
oldest person in the United States.



The Norfolk Landmark, Tues, June 4, 1895 

Norfolk’s oldest resident, so far as is known, died last night at 7 o’clock. 
The person who was laid claim to this distinction was none other than Penny 
Jones, colored, and her death which was occasioned by extreme old age, occurred 
at the Old Folk’s Home, No. 324 Bute Street, of which she had been an inmate 
about two years. For a number of years previous to her entrance into the Home, 
Penny lived in Scott Street, where she was provide with a residence and fed and 
clothed by friends, both white and colored.

There is no positive evidence of her exact age, but from the best information 
obtainable it appears, that she was about 112 years of age at the time of her 
death. As an evidence of the above statement, Penny has a nephew who survives 
her and who it known to be 70 years old. This nephew remembers visiting her 
when as a boy, at which time his aunt had been very advanced in years. Penny 
had been a servant in the Todd Family, of this city for nearly a century. Her 
funeral will take place from the Bute Street A.M.E. Church this afternoon at 5 
o’clock.



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